US Patent Issued to GROHE on July 29 for "Sanitary fitting with an operating element for a mixing valve" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,158, issued on July 29, was assigned to GROHE AG (Hemer, Germany).

"Sanitary fitting with an operating element for a mixing valve" was invented by Henning Brand (Dortmund, Germany), Sebastian Kukla (Bochum, Germany) and Jonas Kick (Menden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sanitary faucet (1) having a mixing valve (2) for mixing cold water and warm water to form mixed water having a desired mixed-water temperature, wherein the mixed-water temperature can be set by rotating a control disk (3) of the mixing valve about a first axis of rotation (4); and a first control element (5), which can be rotated about a second axis of rota...